Politics
Bruce Anderson is very much a trenchant conservative, although he often displays an irreverence typical of the iconoclast. In his youth he was a Marxist, and it was as a member of the radical organization People's Democracy that he first became involved in the civil rights campaign in Northern Ireland. Anderson participated in the most "dramatic moment in the story of People's Democracy": a four-day 'freedom walk' from Belfast to Derry, which began on New Year's Day 1969. It was on 4 January that he and his fellow marchers (which included among its number Paul Bew, a contemporary of Anderson's at Campbell College and now the Professor of Irish Politics at Queen's University, Belfast) were attacked by approximately 200 enraged loyalists at Burntollet bridge, just outside Derry.
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